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Sunday, 23 November 2014

Under My Skin (Immortality Strain #1) by Shawntelle Madison (Review)

What would you do if the one
thing we all take for granted is taken away from you? What would you do if you
have to battle for control of your own body? For Tate, a teenager, this becomes
her life. After being selected for an “honoured” position, she quickly discovers
the dark truth of the all-powerful Guild the controls her country. Under My Skin has the reader asking large
questions of concepts like “the ends justify the means” and contemplating what
gives a life value, and who has the right to it. I felt this novel had a very smooth feel to
it, and did not linger too much on pointless detail. There is definitely much
room for improvement with the resolution, due to giant gaps in what happened to
others the reader would be curious about. This conundrum most definitely would
leave the reader less then satisfied as they would finish the novel, as it did
me. I give Under My Skin the rating of three and a half out of five stars.